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Re: [PATCH v2] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'd rather that there was one script for this rather than two. Currently the
> Gnulib script is used by many other projects (GNU Emacs, coreutils, ...) and
> we should be looking to use a new-and-improved script in those other projects
> too. So I'd welcome the idea of putting this in Gnulib.
Note that the scripts do different things. The gnulib script is for the
case where the commit messages include ChangeLog-like content. The glibc
one is for the case where the commit messages do not try to list changed
entities or what changed in those entities, but where an
automatically-generated list of changed entities is considered good enough
if the listing of such entities is accurate enough as applied to commits
in the particular GNU project in question. (But I'd hope most of the core
code in the glibc script could be shared by other projects, even if there
are some bits specific to glibc-specific source code constructs. Cf. how
we use the gnulib update-copyright script, with just a local wrapper that
arranges to call it with the right options for each glibc source file.)
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